Don’t just learn, experience. Don’t just read, absorb. Don’t just change, transform. Don’t just relate, advocate. Don’t just promise, prove. Don’t just criticize, encourage. Don’t just think, ponder. Don’t just take, give. Don’t just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don’t just hear, listen. Don’t just talk, act. Don’t just tell, show. Don’t just exist, live.
The Hidden Collections staff is at the Digital Library Federation Forum in Atlanta this week, generously hosted by Georgia Tech. Congratulations to DLF and to conference organizers Louisa Kwasigroch and Emily Gallivan on a wonderful conference–it’s the largest Forum ever!
This came from a publication celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Denver Public Library back in 1989. I asked via Twitter (sadly already knowing the answer) if they still got to roller skate in the closed stacks.
Then I started thinking about how awesome a Literary/Librarian Roller Derby team would be. Some suggested names:
Pain Austin
Hurt Vonnegut
Fyodor Destroyevsky
Vladimir Knock-your-block-off (not my best)
J. D. Slaughtinger
Assault Whitman
Horror Luis Borges
Given the number of roller derbying librarians I’ve met, I get the feeling that roller derby needs to be folded into the standard stereotype of librarians.
We love this bookplate, in use in the mid-20th century at Andover-Harvard Theological Library (now Harvard Divinity School Library) partially because the Latin translation by St. Jerome (also called Hieronymous) is so important in the history of biblical studies, but also because Jerome is the patron saint of librarians. :)
